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title: Issa Rice
author: Issa Rice
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created: 2014-09-13
date: 2017-10-31
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This is the website of myself, Issa Rice. This site stores biographical information
about me, but it is also a personal wiki or [open notebook](http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/open-notebook-history.html)
of sorts; anything that doesn't belong elsewhere ends up on here, and as a
result the content on here can be of admittedly low-quality: unfinished,
written in multiple voices over the span of years, wrong, or otherwise unsuitable for public
consumption. Embarrassing as it is, I like to "think and work in the open" so
others can benefit from my thoughts and critique them.
# On this site
- [About me](about), [about this site](about-this-site)
- [Contact me](contact): the best way to contact me is via email at
[riceissa@gmail.com](mailto:riceissa@gmail.com)
- [Account names I use on various websites](account-names)
- [Portfolio of my work](portfolio); [more complete list of things I have worked on](work)
- [Software I use](software)
- My pages related to the [University of Washington](university-of-washington)
- [Notes on computing](computing) (Unix-like operating systems, programming, etc.)
- [Notes on math](math) (old)
- [Pages related to education](education)
- A mirror of [my Quora answers]()
- Information about my involvement with the [effective altruism](effective-altruism) movement
- Philanthropy:
- [Open Philanthropy Project non-grant funding](open-philanthropy-project-non-grant-funding)
- [GiveWell staff growth](givewell-staff-growth)
- [Against Malaria Foundation](against-malaria-foundation)
- [Total spending in global health](total-spending-in-global-health)
- [Charities calculation](charities-calculation) (some data collection on the
number of charities tracked under various criteria)
# Subdomains
The following sites are not related to my personal website but are available
via my personal domain name, `issarice.com`. I list them here in case you
wanted to navigate to one of them instead or you were curious about what
subdomains existed.
- [lw2](https://lw2.issarice.com/): a LessWrong 2.0 reader I built
- [eaforum](https://eaforum.issarice.com/): an Effective Altruism Forum reader I built
- [timelines](https://timelines.issarice.com/): Timelines Wiki, a wiki hosting timelines
on various topics
- [files](https://files.issarice.com/): place for hosting random files
- [exp](https://exp.issarice.com/): place for hosting experimental stuff that I
don't care about being available for the long-term
- [aiwatch](https://aiwatch.issarice.com/): AI Watch, a website for tracking the AI
safety field
- [orgwatch](https://orgwatch.issarice.com/): Org Watch, a website for tracking various
organizations
- [beliefs](https://beliefs.issarice.com/): an experimental site for tracking beliefs
over time
- [contentcreation](https://contentcreation.issarice.com/): Content Creation Wiki
# Summary of what I worked on: July 2019 {#summary}
For completed tasks, see the [work]() page.
For my edits to the Machine Learning Subwiki, see [here](https://machinelearning.subwiki.org/w/index.php?limit=160&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=IssaRice&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2019&month=7).
I spent most of this month learning more mathematics.
I also spent some time (~30 hours) this month doing contract work for the [BERI/FHI collaboration](http://existence.org/collaborations/).
For previous monthly updates, see the [archive of my monthly updates]().
# Activity feeds
Here are some activity feeds that track what I've been working on:
- My [daily updates blog](https://issarice.wordpress.com/), which tracks my
learning related to AI safety
- My GitHub [contribution activity](https://github.com/riceissa), including my
[commits to this website's
repository](https://github.com/riceissa/issarice.com/commits/master)
- My [contributions to the Timelines Wiki](https://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Issa)
([Git version with more incremental changes](https://github.com/riceissa/issarice.com/commits/master/external/timelines.issarice.com), [page creations](https://timelines.issarice.com/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Issa&namespace=&tagfilter=&newOnly=1))
- My [contributions to the Machine Learning Subwiki](https://machinelearning.subwiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/IssaRice) ([page creations](https://machinelearning.subwiki.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=IssaRice&namespace=&tagfilter=&newOnly=1))
- My [contributions to the Learning Subwiki](https://learning.subwiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Issa_Rice) ([page creations](https://learning.subwiki.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Issa+Rice&namespace=&tagfilter=&newOnly=1))
- My [contributions to Devec, the Development Economics Subwiki](https://devec.subwiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Issa_Rice) ([page creations](https://devec.subwiki.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Issa+Rice&namespace=&tagfilter=&newOnly=1)).
- My [public GitHub Gists](https://gist.github.com/riceissa)
- [Summary of my contract work for Vipul
Naik](https://github.com/vipulnaik/contractwork/blob/master/contributor-lists/issa-list.mediawiki)
([more detailed page with
tables](https://contractwork.vipulnaik.com/worker.php?worker=Issa+Rice))
- [List of pages on this site, sorted by date of last substantive
revision](all-pages)
- [Recent changes on the Cause Prioritization
Wiki](https://causeprioritization.org/_activity)
- My recent [comments](https://www.greaterwrong.com/users/riceissa?show=comments)
and [posts](https://www.greaterwrong.com/users/riceissa?show=posts) on LessWrong
- My recent [comments](https://ea.greaterwrong.com/users/riceissa?show=comments)
and [posts](https://ea.greaterwrong.com/users/riceissa?show=posts) on the
Effective Altruism Forum
- [Contributions to LessWrong
Wiki](https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Riceissa)
- [Recent Quora questions](https://www.quora.com/profile/Issa-Rice/questions)
(I occasionally ask questions on Quora while I work)
[email]: mailto:riceissa@gmail.com